just now
JoieTang: i just had this lovely taiwanese lady come over and...this is the conversation...."joy! you've lost weight."
"no i've actually gained weight."
"but your face is thinner"
"that's stress. you always lose weight in the face and gain in other places"
"oh. well you're thinner than you were in taiwan. you were so fat in taiwan"
"i know"
"yeah, so fat."
"i hate taiwan"
"really? why?"
JoieTang: i'm so exceedingly pleasant, aren't i?
JoieTang: and i hate chinese people
Jowithani: ah
Jowithani: um
Jowithani: joy
Jowithani: are you allowed to hate chinese people?
JoieTang: yes
JoieTang: as i am chinese
JoieTang: absolutely
posted by J. @ 9:42 PM
6 Comments:
It's that whole "I'm a part of your group, therefore I am allowed to judge you" thing. We talk about it in Linguisitics all the time.
as an unwelcome critic to this blog i just have to say that there are definitely more issues in the world than an UN-FAT person's rants about being fat.... and if it makes you feel any better (which it won't)- eric once took a pen and traced over my stretch mark cuz he thought it was funny-- you get over it -- well, i got over it- you may never get over it
dude, i'm not saying my issues are all that important. this is a blog that by nature should not be taken too seriously. it's not meant to be thought-provoking.
moreover, i am not asking for sympathy. i am amusing myself, through catharsis. and moreover moreoever, because this is just catharsis, don't assume that once i've written something that i'm done with it.
because, as i'm sure you have not forgotten, i've been working on body issues for years. and as you have pointed out, i might for the rest of my life. but, mel, if i get all twisted up about it every few days or every few hours, SO WHAT? at least, i'm laughing about it. and yes, this is my way of laughing about ... me, by not holding it all in. i don't have time to be embarrassed about this.
after all, "there are definitely more issues in the world than UN-fat person's rants about being fat."
oh, jesus, just wait till i tell you about my fat white ass and thailand. you're constantly weighing the delicious bargains against the certainty that the mean lady will tell you, "OBESE SIZES OVER THERE!" and i'm not obese.
honestly, asians are so freakin' mean.
at least people who didn't work in garment stores/markets didn't constantly tell me i was fat. really, even the people who were trying to swindle us were very nice. it was just the clothing sellers.
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